Tutorials and great Mac software!
I’ve walked around with iPod touch for quite a while now, and yes, it is jailbreaked! I let Ants run over my display, I play Labyrinth with the iPod’s built in accelerometer, and so on forever… People see my iPod touch and ask me, why do they not have these cool things – well cause mine is jailbreaked!
Jailbreaked means you get access to the iPod/iPhone’s firmware and then write/read on it how you like it. Apple does not allow it at this moment, though, they have said they will open the iPod touch and the iPhone up at the end of January or February. My guess is that they bring a new iPhone version at the Macworld ‘08 and make this “not-jailed” firmware a new feature.
In any case – can I jailbreak my iPod touch or the iPhone? Yes and it could have never been easier.
So before we get started, there are some points that I want to make. If you jailbreak your iPod/iPhone, you will void your warranty and all sorts of other regulations wether it be with AT&T or any other company. You are seen as a hacker in their eyes as soon as you have completed this tutorial. I know, it sounds horrible – but you are, breaking out of jail!
I struggled at the beginning if I should do it or not – but eventually I went with it because it is just awesome! New apps, features, look, everything – a new iPod/iPhone!
Is it secure? Yes. The method might sound obscure and error-filled – but zillion of people have done it and it works like a charm!
Lastly, Guimkie will not take any responsibility for anything that will happen to you or your iPod/iPhone after you have followed this tutorial. Use it on your own risk!
Having said that, I still suggest you do it!
How do I get DVD movies into iTunes and on my iPod? How do I rip movies for iTunes? Can I do it for free?
Well, this post is the solution to your problem. I will guide you step by step through a totally free tutorial that only uses free software to rip your DVD’s into iTunes and later enjoy them on your Apple TV or iPhone or iPod or whatever!
Is this easy? Hell yeah. Just some clicks and then you have it in iTunes.
Before we get started for this tutorial, I would just like to say that ripping the movies is illegal if you share or distribute them over the internet. This tutorial is intended to show you how you can get your self-bought DVD onto your own Mac and into your own iTunes. I think that for personal use you are free to rip them into your iTunes library – but don’t trust me here for 100%, I am not sure on that!
This is a long, long post, so I did split it into two parts. So, click the link below to read on.
Safari 3 is Apple’s latest browser and is surely my favorite one in the world of browsers. Firefox, is just yuck, it has a ugly look and ARG – just horrible. We then have Opera which is the worse that I have ever experienced – I mean, just look at the icon??? Who wants that in a dock??? No one!!! BTW – same goes for the Firefox icon (Even though the fox is a nice idea). Better is the Camino Browser which is a mixture of Firefox’s browser engine and Safari’s elegance. Well done Camino group!!!
In any case, I’m a 100% Safari user and will never switch to a different one.
Now to the post, since Safari is quite new, it has some great features that have yet not been discovered. One of them is a advanced source-code inspector that makes life easier than ever, at least for developers.
Firefox has a plugin named Firebug which allows you to look at the source-code of a page, steal stylesheets in a snap and lots of other great things. Safari now supports this without any sort of plugin. A right-click inspector will allow you to get this:
The image above shows the loading time for certain things of my site. All visually interesting and the power of this “inspector” is just amazing.
Here is a image which shows the source code with syntax coloring.
This image shows how elements are set up within other elements, basically displaying the whole hierarchy and then the corresponding style attachments for this element! Coooool!
This is known through Coda already – but it is just nice to see this out of Coda.
Now how do you get this cool thing? It’s totally easy, just follow this steps:
defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitDeveloperExtras -bool trueI hope you enjoy this little trick. 